Quick note, because I've gotten a bunch of people emailing me -- if you could pass this on, I'd really appreciate it!
I'm happy to do this for anybody who registered a large number of accounts they aren't using (so the usernames can be registered by other people), especially while we're still working on coming up with our policies around namesquatting and mass account registration. I've had a few people email in to Accounts (which is really just me! okay, and the cats, but they don't answer support requests) with the names of one or two accounts they aren't using anymore. The process is super manual and labor intensive (the cats don't do account management either), so I am unfortunately limiting it to people who have 10 or more unused and unwanted accounts they want to voluntarily relinquish.
(People who have fewer than 10 unused and unwanted accounts should handle them through our usual deletion system: set the account status to "deleted" and wait for it to be purged from the system at any time after 60 days after you delete the account.)
Anyway, I really appreciate you letting people know about this! I probably won't post about it in the next news update, since if I did I'd have to sit in the comments explaining to people that no, there really *is* a perfectly good reason to have dozens of DW accounts and no, we're really not interested in telling people that they're having TOO MUCH FUN USING OUR SITE AND THEY HAVE TO STOP NOW, but I also know there are a bunch of people whose enthusiasm got away with them when they were creating accounts and are now (kind of sheepishly) coming to us and saying, hey, sorry about that, can I turn them back in? So, I'm happy to help those people out. :)
(And, as a side note, I'd also like to take the chance to remind people that trading or selling a DW account or the username for a DW account, or registering accounts in bulk just to trade or sell, is against the Terms of Service (part IX and part XI/11) -- plus, a traded account can never again be secure, so it's just a bad idea all around. Okay, end of lecture, really. *g*)
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I'm happy to do this for anybody who registered a large number of accounts they aren't using (so the usernames can be registered by other people), especially while we're still working on coming up with our policies around namesquatting and mass account registration. I've had a few people email in to Accounts (which is really just me! okay, and the cats, but they don't answer support requests) with the names of one or two accounts they aren't using anymore. The process is super manual and labor intensive (the cats don't do account management either), so I am unfortunately limiting it to people who have 10 or more unused and unwanted accounts they want to voluntarily relinquish.
(People who have fewer than 10 unused and unwanted accounts should handle them through our usual deletion system: set the account status to "deleted" and wait for it to be purged from the system at any time after 60 days after you delete the account.)
Anyway, I really appreciate you letting people know about this! I probably won't post about it in the next news update, since if I did I'd have to sit in the comments explaining to people that no, there really *is* a perfectly good reason to have dozens of DW accounts and no, we're really not interested in telling people that they're having TOO MUCH FUN USING OUR SITE AND THEY HAVE TO STOP NOW, but I also know there are a bunch of people whose enthusiasm got away with them when they were creating accounts and are now (kind of sheepishly) coming to us and saying, hey, sorry about that, can I turn them back in? So, I'm happy to help those people out. :)
(And, as a side note, I'd also like to take the chance to remind people that trading or selling a DW account or the username for a DW account, or registering accounts in bulk just to trade or sell, is against the Terms of Service (part IX and part XI/11) -- plus, a traded account can never again be secure, so it's just a bad idea all around. Okay, end of lecture, really. *g*)